Thanks for that. I had a feeling that there was an OpenData set of schools.
Perhaps we can persuade Brian & Rob to make schools the next quarterly project. Jerry On 25 November 2015 at 08:42, Christian Ledermann < [email protected]> wrote: > maybe the edubase data could help with this > http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/about.xhtml states: The Crown > copyright-protected material featured on this website (other than > Departmental logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or > medium, under the terms of the “Open Government > Licence":http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence > > also it could be used to enrich the OS Data with address, telefon number > etc. > > for a quick look at the data edubase provides: > https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-in-england > > As every school in edubase comes with a postcode it should be > reasonably easy to correlate the OS and EduBase data, and then weed > out closed schools > > > > On 24 November 2015 at 18:31, SK53 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps not even for those give the number of Academies (also missing is > the > > new academy in Dunkirk). Point in Polygons for Food Hygiene data might > help. > > > > It would also be interesting to see what they do with multi-institution > > campuses. My nephews go to school in one such place. > > > > On 24 November 2015 at 18:15, Phil Endecott < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> SK53 wrote: > >>> > >>> Quick look (Nottingham, of course): > >>> > >>> - Polygons look OK > >>> - Many features missing (e.g., University of Nottingham Main Campus, > >>> both sites of Dunkirk Primary School > >>> - Old features present (e.g., Elms Primary School, closed prior to > >>> 2011) > >>> - Reasonably well attributed. > >>> > >>> At the very least it could be used to hunt for missing schools (which > >>> I've > >>> done a bit of in N Scotland using Food Hygiene data). > >> > >> > >> Having looked at OpenMap Local for Edinburgh a while ago, my impression > is > >> that they have used some rather primitive rules to identify "important > >> buildings". It picks up anything with "school" in the name, but fails > to > >> mark most of the city landmarks - things that are shown in their older > >> "Street > >> View" data. So yes, it might work for schools - but not much else. > >> > >> > >> Cheers, Phil. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-GB mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > > > -- > Best Regards, > > Christian Ledermann > > Newark-on-Trent - UK > Mobile : +44 7474997517 > > https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christianledermann > https://github.com/cleder/ > > > <*)))>{ > > If you save the living environment, the biodiversity that we have left, > you will also automatically save the physical environment, too. But If > you only save the physical environment, you will ultimately lose both. > > 1) Don’t drive species to extinction > > 2) Don’t destroy a habitat that species rely on. > > 3) Don’t change the climate in ways that will result in the above. > > }<(((*> >
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